Every two-and-a-half years, approximately, Pirate Cinema gets pirated
itself - this Sunday by Istvan Kantor (see, among many other websites, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Istvan_Kantor), who will bring his new film
"Superspectre". We have attached some prose, at the very bottom, and
invite all friends of neoist cinema to come to Tucholskystrasse by 7 pm.
The "regular" Pirate Cinema program will begin immediately afterwards.

"Real change in a society must first manifest as a change in the social
relationships that people want and understand. Sudden, cataclysmic
revolutions that bring down governments and societies never create real
progressive change. So long as the people in the society have and expect
the same social relationships, the post-revolutionary society will
instantly reconfigure itself with exactly the same exploitive and
reactionary structures the revolution toppled, and with the revolution
as legitimation, the new hierarchy, derived from the revolutionary
elite, will inevitably proceed to implement greater and greater heights
of tyranny.

The failed revolution, never tasting the poison of power, remains a
poetic inspiration, its participants transcend the limitations of
whatever moral and ideological limitations they may have, becoming
symbols of human struggle. The failed revolution gives us the mythic
structure by which we identify with progress and internalize
revolutionary ideas. The failed revolution mobilizes a far more
important force than state power, it becomes the image and identity of
our internal revolution, and changes the way in which we conceive of
ourselves and society, and thus, in creating this inspiration for self
and mutual understanding, it motivates us to live revolutionary lives.

50 years ago, such a failed revolution took place in Hungary. As a young
boy, Istvan Kantor witnessed this failed revolution, and this experience
has shaped his artistic practice. In 2004, Istvan Kantor organized a
Neoist festival in Berlin, where in a series of performances and
presentations we carried out our own failed revolution. There is an
archive of this period at http://neoism.trick.ca. During this time,
Istvan began work on his new feature length video, Superspectre /
Ubergespenst, which he has dedicated to the anniversary of the Hungarian
Revolution of 1956."